German camera manufacturer Leica has added another rangefinder body to its M system that has a pared-down feature set, an extra quiet shutter unit and a lower price than the M Typ 240. The new Leica M Typ 262 is very much the same as the other M bodies, but does not offer video or live view shooting, even though it uses a 24MP CMOS sensor. Leica has used the button space on the rear of the camera that is used for live view in the Typ 240 to add direct access to the white balance feature.

The company says that the new shutter unit is barely audible and the shutter cocking mechanism is 'considerably quieter' than the system used in previous models. In single shot mode the new mechanism allows up to two frames to be recorded in a second, while the drive mode allows up to three frames per second, as before.

Instead of a brass top plate the Typ 262 uses aluminum, which makes the camera around 100g lighter than the Typ 240. Leica says one of benefits of not offering video and live view is that the menu system is much simpler and consists of only two pages. The camera may offer the same full-frame 24MP sensor that is used in the M Typ 240 and the M-P, and seems unlikely to be the sensor used in the more recent Leica Q and SL.

At $5195/£4050 the Typ 262 is offered as the least expensive of the M bodies, and is available immediately. For more information visit the Leica website.

Press release:

Focusing on the essentials of M rangefinder photography

Leica Camera has introduced the Leica M (Typ 262) into its digital rangefinder camera range, joining the Leica M and M-P (Typ 240) and the Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246), now giving photographers the choice of four models.

Incorporating rangefinder technology perfected over many decades, the new M (Typ 262) represents Leica M photography in its purest form, concentrating on the most essential features, combined with intuitive handling and discreet styling. This allows users to focus on the fascination of M photography and, ultimately, on capturing the decisive moment.

As with the other digital M cameras, the Leica M (Typ 262) features a high-resolution CMOS full-frame sensor, designed exclusively for rangefinder photography, but excludes video recording and Live View. The 24-megapixel sensor delivers exceptional image quality and extreme sensitivity, and makes the Leica M (Typ 262) the ideal camera for photography in available light situations. At the same time, the camera’s Maestro processor guarantees fast processing of captured images, ensuring that it is immediately ready to shoot.

The clear and practical outer design of the Leica M (Typ 262) also focuses on the essentials. The top plate is made from durable aluminium, making the camera around 100g lighter, and even more ergonomic than its sister models. The words ’Made in Germany’ are engraved on the back of the camera. Further differences include a smaller Leica logo and a ‘step’ at the end of the top plate, which are both features reminiscent of the design of the Leica M9.

For maximum discretion when shooting, the Leica M (Typ 262) shutter is barely audible – an invaluable advantage in situations where the photographer needs to remain unobtrusive. As an aid to this, the camera features a shutter cocking system that is considerably quieter in single exposure mode than that of the M (Typ 240), and enables a shutter release frequency of up to two frames per second. In continuous mode, the M (Typ 262) has the same sequential shooting speed as its sister model and shoots up to three frames per second.

The handling of the Leica M (Typ 262) fulfills everything a discerning photographer expects from a Leica M. This includes the rapid manual focusing process with the coupled rangefinder and the focusing ring of the lens, as well as the option of selecting automatically determined or manually set shutter speeds. Furthermore, as this model does not include Live View or video recording, the menu is extremely straightforward and consists of only two pages. This ensures that all settings are rapidly accessible at all times. White balance is selected by a dedicated button on the back of the camera.

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If this is the m-e equivelent and is called the m262, the name does remind me of a ww2 warplane, Messerschmitt ME 262. Wonder if it has any relevance to that jet fighter? Just a thought. No offense to anyone.

The replacement of the brass top with aluminum reducing by 100g the overall weight is an improvement. It only took them a century (in digital camera years) to come up with that but, anyway, it's a good thing. However, crippling the camera and call it a feature (or back to pure form or whatever the Book of Stupids dictates) is something very few manufacturers have dared to do but no surprise coming from Leica. I would think that removing the fiddly, complex and archaic RF mechanism would reduce the cost much more than removing LV/video but, hey, Leica's market... er, I mean engineers, know better. Try to knock a bit hard on a surface with this 'high-quality' body and see how accurate your focusing will become. Oh, well.... and the price is Leica, i.e., still for victims of the red dot. Overall, another great product form Leica. Maybe they need to reach bankruptcy without Panasonic around to wake up from their lethargic and monolithic sleep.

Crippling? There a some of us that don't care about video, live view, auto focus that misses or a crutch like exposure compensation. Perhaps it's old school. White balance, ISO, shutter speed and aperture are all that I want on a camera. All the extra crap on the fancy whiz bang cameras just gets in the way of capturing the moment.

There is a reason "crap" exist on modern cameras. They do help photographers capture the moment. If you are used to shoot certain subjects using very basic controls that's fine, even commendable at times, but not necessarily efficient or recommended. Leica does not offer superior reliability or built quality in the digital camera market, and cameras are no longer light-tight boxes, full stop. So, what's left to be potentially offered by Leica? Lens base, image quality, ergonomics, and a competitive price. I'd agree they have the first and, occasionally, the second points covered but fail dismally on the third and fourth points.

Like buying a Honda dressed up as a BMW and you don't care. There is obviously nothing wrong with a Honda but the difference is the cost and what justifies that cost. Of course the lenses Leica makes are very nice but you can buy adapters if that is what you value most.

I'd like a camera made in Germany, machined from a block of aluminum compared to some mass-market thing than something made in some Asian backwater out of cheap cast magnesium, covered with vinyl that'll probably peel off and crappy, wear-prone paint.

I guess you do not have a Nikon D4S or Canon 1D or a digital Hasseblad. Because some of these cameras in terms to your analogy are like what a Veyron is to a Ferrari. Also, it would be inconceivable or just a dream if you own a cheap Toyota to buy a Veyron or Ferrari. There is nothing wrong with this. But this does not make the camera bad or expensive.

Because at least with the Leica you can put nearly any lens that exists. Something that you cannot do with the Nikon D4S or Canon 1D or nearly any DSLR. Even other mirror less would not work as well with wide angle lenses or many other lenses and the list just goes on. This makes the other cameras too expensive.

So effectively if you can afford not having AF this makes the Leica inexpensive.

Unfortunately, you can not usefully put non-native lenses on this particular Leica, because they have removed live-view. This also makes wide-angle lenses painful, because you have to use an external optical finder for framing, and the built-in finder for focussing.

If all you desperately want is a digital M7, then this is probably a good camera. But I wonder for how many people this is true.

I think they should have omitted the jpeg engine too. Is it not much more exciting to wait until you have transfered your RAWs to an computer an converted them to see them on the big screen (apple for most leica users, I guess) for the first time? That is more the classic experience leica shooters are looking for.

Wow...a bunch of sarcastic people who a) Cant afford one and thus decide to put the product down, and b) have never used one and therefore have no idea as to the user experience involved. Can always count on jealous, broke people to offer up the insults.

Yes. But it isn't an 'E' model as usually 'E's are just a rebadged version of the outgoing model at a bit cheaper price. This is actually a new replacement for that camera, but in some ways a M-E of the 240.

Need to get a shot from an awkward angle and want to use the back screen to compose, say, at the ground level, high above the head, or stretched outside a window or railing？ Forget it with this camera, no live view.

To some it is beaverterror. Don't speak for everyone. In the case of the camera having less features, yes it does... and its priced less than other Leica's.... so if you want more features, buy a higher priced camera. Simple.

You simply don't understand the expression. It has to do with minimalism, and in some cases a less complicated tool is exactly what a person needs more than a complicated or feature rich tool. Simple.

No, I understand the expression, and I'm saying applying the expression to this situation is inappropriate.

If you want to pay "less" (five thousand dollars) for a camera that is crippled, be my guest. Just don't go around calling it "more".

This is especially hilarious given the timing, when a Sony camera is prominently featured on the front page as an example of what a truly innovative company can offer at a significantly lower price than this joke from Leica. This is 2015, not 2005. Anybody who pays 5000 dollars for a camera with no live view is a doofus, no matter how good Leica lenses are. Get a modern mirrorless camera and adapt the lenses. Advances in manual focus aids such as focus peaking allow the photographer to focus just as easily, and arguable more accurately, than a fragile range finder mechanism.

I said to SOME more is less. And I also said that I like the camera but its still out of reach for so many. I think you're a bit sensitive about opinions of cameras. :) We all know that Leica's customers are a minority of users with deeper pockets- so for that crowd, Leica may be courting a more "purist" buyer just like Nikon tried with the DF. Who knows. Comparing a Leica to a Sony camera though- Im telling you Leica could really care less what Sony are doing and vice versa- the customers they are after are completely different.

Live view is a nice test of the axiom, because while I appreciate the clarity of purpose that comes with having fewer available options to choose from live view is a feature I do use from time to time.

Verdict: I'd go for it. I'd happily buy a camera with no liveview and no video mode if it both saved me money and made the camera more straightforward to use. Not Leica of course but props to them for going that road.

You can phrase it however you like. At the end of the day, people who actually care about photography want control and flexibility. On the topic of live view, we are talking about a basic feature available on all but the cheapest crop sensor DSLRs. We are talking about cameras in the price range of a few hundred here. If you want to wrap that up and make it sound better by using such BS as "purism", well that's just hilarious.

Leica cares very much about what Sony is doing. In case you haven't noticed, the appearance of competent full frame offerings from the likes of Sony is precisely the reason Leica has been scrambling this year to release camera after camera. Their sales are being hit hard by people who have Leica lenses, and who are realizing that there are far better bodies to be using them on than the overpriced, crippled, 2005 era bodies being released by Leica.

@ BeaverTerror - I HAVE a LV camera, namely A7R II and I want this camera, I'm sorry that this makes you assume I'm an idiot. For situations where you want LV those cameras are far better and far better than a RF with LV, so for a rangefinder I would simply prefer it didn't have such a kludgy live view at all.

This camera is marketed for street photographers no doubt about it. So video is not needed and using live view to take photos on a Leica M rangefinder is a crime.

@BeaverTerror No, you don't understand "less is more". You have to experience minimalism to truly understand "less is more". The expression is totally appropriate in this situation. What cgarrard meant by the phrase has nothing to do with the price. "Less" features equals less clutter (i.e. buttons, menus...etc.) and you get to focus on what's most important which is taking photos--which is the "more" part of the expression. Even with this explanation you still won't get it how this appeals to a lot of street photographers and you probably never will.

I'm sure this Leica delivers outstanding images, but its increasingly difficult to see either value or innovation when competitors like Sony are releasing incredible bodies on a regular basis, likewise Fuji continue to deliver on new bodies and incredible lenses. I get the whole Leica unique experience movement, but I would like to see Leica innovate faster and move into the $3k FF market. They may have to partner with other companies, but it would allow the serious enthusiast market to consider more Leica options and lenses, and once you have the lenses, hopefully you'll keep them for a long time. Canon & Nikon understand this very well. I want to see Leica thrive and grow for the next genertion of photogrphers.

They may listen to your suggestion when they go bankrupt the second time. Thanks to Panasonic for rescuing them the first time.

As for partnering, they have been partnering with Panasonic for a long time.They may have good products, but I don't think their prices are any near reasonable, or the products are well worth such a premium price compared to Sony's top of the line A7.

If Pana stops using their lenses, I doubt very much that they can survive at these prices.It would be interesting if DPR could dig some data on how many cameras they sell a year.

The Sony A7 is a pretty nice camera and I use it but it's not a great Leica camera. The adapted Leica lenses don't perform too well on the Sony especially the corners which on many lenses are downright mushy.

How is the A7 an M body? That it can accept M lenses via adapter puts it in a camp littered by inhabitants. That it is full frame narrows that to two cameras. That it isn't a rangefinder completely destroys the comparison.

If it was a cheaper (crippleware) camera someone would release a hacked firmware after three months which would enable live view and video. However, considering the price, I don't think any hacker would dare to tinker with one. By the way if such a release was done, all those people celebrating the simplicity of M 262 would queue to download it!

Post film Leicanomics remains a mystery to me. Still, it's a niche thing with a limited number of potential buyers and well made at that. Just bear in mind the tech is out of date already and, unlike Leica's best lenses, it will depreciate and eventually die.

by this time even Leica is past the initial digital rubbish and beta-versions being sold to the public. a Leica - just about like any DX/FX sensor sized camera nowadays - can be used until it falls apart. all the while producing images as timeless and everlasting as your archive will be.

You might want a word with the M9 owners, some of whom have deterioration issues with sensor components (that will not be around forever). You talk of falling apart, but forget that many, many old film Leicas are still usable. Film is still available, and probably will be long after an M9 becomes irreparable,

This price seems reasonable for a full frame camera that has a unique niche and is very high quality. If you need iwhat it can do (use leica lenses and shoot very quietly and discreetly) it would seem like an excellent choice for theater work, available light portraiture for example. Canon or Nikon pro bodies are about the same or more . . . .

That said, I would never buy a leica again......... Been there , done that and I want my autofocus, live view and my MTV.

Won't happen. Even the Epson RD-1 cost more than that. Anyone trying to make a high-quality rangefinder camera will have to compete both on build and price. Expect a minimum of 4.000$. Now, cut corners, or plasticise, and mass market it and you have the Sony A7r, the latest iteration of which now goes for over 3.000$. In other words, don't expect less than 4.000$ from anyone.

@shigzeo: cost is not the main reason it won't happen. ZI price was £1200, there's room to make it £2500 in digital. To do that may require savings on the R&D and development cost by teaming up with another company (I'm counting on you Ricoh :-)). Also, some of the sonys cost less than A7r.I do agree that it's unlikely to happen anytime soon (unfortunately), because Zeiss is an optics company and its business model in the photography world is to sell lenses for many mounts and devices as opposed to making cameras.

@chessov: I think we are speaking the same language: 2500£, maybe. But only just. Like I said, minimum 4.000$, or make it cheap.

All Sony A7 models are made very very poorly next to a Leica. If you want cheap, and Leica aren't willing to compromise on body rigidity, and manufacturing expense, you MUST find a company more than willing to compromise on both, AND plaster their devices with adverts that defray costs.

Sony: they even pander to WiFi consortium and Bluetooth... That is one way they save money. The other is but compromising on body panels, and rather than focusing on simplicity and intention, focusing on nothing and leaving it all up to the user.

Both methods work. One refines the 'how', the other complicates the 'why'.

You can buy a Sony a7II combo with even less money, but after a year or two it is "old"! But this one is become "antique". It has nothing to lose to coming years! It had never have a full or half hd... Or any K with a number with it...

Eugene232: I don't think that Ben O Connor is suggesting that it won't lose its value. But considering that the M9 still goes for more than half its original value, sometimes much more than that, we are talking about unprecedented resale value _in the digital domain_.

Well Leica, welcome to 2005 ! (when cameras did not able to record video!) :) Apart from joke; no image stabilization, no auto focusing, but finally little bit mercy on the price tag... Why not! Even I can buy, but will it blend my wallet ? That's the question!

It's easy to laugh at Leica, and their pricing, but who can afford to pay £5000+ for a camera these days? Very few "pro" photographers make enough to buy the expensive Canons and Nikons with their super-fast AF, 100s of FPS, and whatnot, which must cost a fortune to develop.

Yet Leica can sell into the luxury market, via their own boutiques, and have waiting lists for cameras such as the Leica Q, and no doubt make hefty profits for their camera division. A desirable brand image is where the money is these days.

For me - work wise - it's not just a decision of buying an expensive pro-body - but buying a TOOL that gets the job done and does last.I still use my D3... and when I upgrade at some point down the road, I know I can still use those lenses (some that I've owned for a long time now)...

For the Leica at 4000$ I think it is simply put over priced for the fact that it's a fixed-lens design (much the same I find about Sony's R1-models) - nice cameras, nice handling - but for the price too limited.I mean, get a Nikon D8xx Canon 5D?, put on a nice 35mm lensSlightly bigger, full weather sealing, lenses to choose from, and high IQ... at a price that still beats the Leica.And you get LV and Video, and fast AF, and...

Agreed but disagree to calling it no other FF with High quality IQ and also forgot to add these lenses are manual focus and requires you to invest so much and the chances of missing a shot in shoots are actually Very high in manual focus world.

Me...And my little dirty mind.Google says:"..conforming with generally accepted standards of respectable or moral behavior."the good name of such a decent and innocent person"Then a camera could also be called Moral or Immoral, uh?Maybe I'm of innocent mind.

Leica in the 50's where the photojournalists camera of choice. Today few pros use Leicas, not because of cost but because there are better alternatives. Leica today, as a response to this, cater to another audience - the luxury market. They want authencity, exclusivity and quality and are ready to pay for it. Also I think the much lower volumes need to cover arguably more research and developement hence the cost per unit. It's easy to ridicule Leica but really it's simple economics. But yes, that's a lot of film. I wish the M3 was still king but the world moves forward.

Technology today is a hard comparison to the technology that originated in the 20's. The automotive industry helps illustrate this when they note that, adjusted for content and technology, cars have not really risen in price as much as one would think.With cameras, the entire replacement of the guts of the camera with electronics unthinkable 40 years ago,it is similar despite the nominal function of photographing.

Fuji Natura 1600 rated at 3200 works. Portra 400, pushed one stop and rated at 3200 or 6400 works. Odd how everyone needs high iso now. I tend to stay between 100-800 without issue. I mainly shoot b&w and it costs $2 a roll. So yes, film is still cheap.

@howaboutraw - Deal with what? You asked if there was film I could use at 3200. I pointed out there are options...I didn't even mention Delta 3200. And you come back with a snarky answer when someone responds to you questions? Maybe get the chip off your shoulder a bit. You didnt ask for differences between film and digital...you asked if there are films at 3200...and I answered. I suggest you deal with it.

What does the fact that digital cameras didn't exist in the past have to do with the cost difference of a Leica today? You seem to think you're making some kind of profound statement, but it really just seems like you have no idea what you are talking about.

As to cars costing $2500 in the 50's... The adjusted value of $2500 from the 50's is around $20,000 in 2015.

The Leica m3 with 50/2 lens was $350 at that time. Adjusted 2015 price right around $3k.

You can get a much more capable camera than one built ages ago from any manufacturer for a fraction of the price of this Leica. So WHY is the Leica more expensive? You are trying to justify the price by quoting additional features that are standard on any camera today. You make no sense.

The m3 commanded the price it did because it was clearly better than its contemporaries. This camera isn't.

You have yet to offer a single pertinent argument. You are simply stating a series of stats that have no bearing on the argument at hand. You are desperately trying to prove you are right by spouting incoherent encyclopedic facts to bore people into yielding the argument, while at the same time continually contradicting your own assertions with "but I didn't say that", all wrapped in this horribly transparent false modesty.

Coming from the guy with many hundreds of posts blindly defending Leica but unable to offer a single valid reason for the price gap between this camera and it's contemporaries... I think any insult from you is a compliment.

You are the embodiment of a brainless fanboy. Arrogant and spineless all at once. The true mark of irrationality.

The answer to this argument is simple. The reason Leica prices are wildly higher compared to their historical prices, inflation adjusted, is that Leica used to be a real camera company whose products were used by working photographers. Their prices back in the day reflected market reality. Today, Leica is nothing but a luxury goods brand under the guise of a camera company. Their pricing strategy is more akin to that of Gucci than to that of their peers in the camera industry. Summary: Today's Leicas are priced as bling, appealing more to vanity than to common sense.

Arguing with HowaboutRAW (yes, he's so well educated he thinks "RAW" is an acronym) is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are at chess, he's just going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board and strut around like he's victorious. You can't have a meaningful conversation with a guy who treats a camera company like his favorite football team. Save your responses for people who use logic.

He "lost"? Since when is discussing something objectively a win/lose proposition? Oh, that's right...I forgot...discussing anything logically with you is an immediate lost cause. Keep crapping on the chess board, my friend.

"lost cause", like insisting that you actually look at what Leica lenses can do if you want to be treated seriously? That's a lost cause, since all you do is spout off about how that's not possible--or about how it's something easy to match.

PeaceKeeper, lost the argument by pretending that my points about this new M body had anything to do with defending the high price of Leica gear.

RAW asks PK if there is ISO3200 color film options. When he answers, RAW comes back acting like he's been insulted with "don't assume I've never done it". Dude pretends to be marginalized like he's some martyr. Ridiculous.

There's 1600 ISO colour film, which I've shot, and it's nowhere near as usable as shooting a Leica M240 at ISO 6400. (And I never claimed to have pushed 1600 colour film to 3200.)

Then as for incorrect assumptions about about whether I've shot ISO 3200, which is a B+W thing only: Why would I not call those fallacies out when I have plenty of experience with that film going back to the late 1980s?

Just so this is clear: ISO 3200 film, BW, has huge amounts of grain, and it looks a bit like a photo reproduced in newspaper circa 1925.

So the implication that it's easy to substitute 35mm film for the higher ISO capacity of the Leica M240 is preposterous, and those insisting those clams be accurate come off as really ignorant.

PeaceK lost the argument and then tried to pretend that I defended the price of Leica bodies. And you tried you bolster his/he losing case by pretending I'd said things I hadn't.

Sorry your ignorance of these films is showing. You're quoting specs, not dealing with the reality of the results.

Portra 800 was about tops for 35mm colour film and that only released in 2002. It couldn't magically be pushed to 3200 and deliver anything like the results of the M240 at ISO 3200--and the M240 is far from a really strong high ISO digital camera.

I think this will appeal more than its bigger brother to most Leica buyers. Improving photography above all. Still I think much Leica glass deserves a high resolution sensor. Perhaps the focus system can no longer keep up?

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